Stop the presses, Jason Statham is starring in an action movie

The project stars Statham as an expatriate Brit living in the island city, who “goes on the run with a high-level female Chinese agent to solve a kidnapping with global implications.” (Not exactly reinventing the courting-the-Asian-market wheel, here.) Plus, the person responsible for writing the script is Kurt Wimmer, the scribe who gave us genre fare like The Recruit, Salt, and, unfortunately, the Total Recall remake. (He also wrote and directed Equilibrium and the hilariously dumb Milla Jovovich vehicle Ultraviolet, so the man’s got ideas, even if they are bonkers ones.) As long as Wimmer can give Statham enough scenes that cover up his embarrassingly minuscule physique, our generous participation in the gentle charade of Jason Statham, action star, can continue unabated. We’re all pulling for the lil’ fella.